Last week we looked at how to create a Vitis application that would detect the OpenCL platform and identify the OpenCL devices available within the platform. In this blog, we are going to examine how we can create a simple kernel application and then complete the rest of the host application so that we get an executable application.

To get started creating the kernel, we need to select the src directory under the kernels folder in the explorer and create a new file.

The code to be created is simple. For instructional purposes, it is simple input which is multiplied by the iteration of the loop and returned. All of the source will be made available on my GitHub.